OEM or Not OEM Ink Toners?

OEM, Remanufactured or Refill Ink Toners / Imaging Drums?

Whether you've got a black ink printer or a color printer, an InkJet or BubbleJet printer, or a photo printer-  your printer's ink will sooner or later run out or dry out. Fact of life.
You go to some shop and choke on the price they ask for a replacement ink toner cartridge… Especially a rip-off in Europe, where I live, with a price tag of around $65 for one miserable color ink toner for my Lexemark printer!
Yes, my friend, your printer might have been cheap to buy, but the ink toners is what they earn upon- life customer, with lifetime ink addiction…

So maybe you try to print less, if you're not a photographer or a business. But nonetheless, you need fresh ink for the hungry printer. And what with all the digital cameras we use nowadays, we also want to print out our images. It's also more convenient to print at home then drag along to some shop, wait, return to pick up the photo prints… Printing at home we can correct colors, enhance, resize, remove red-eye atc.

If you print professionally on a high-end photo printer and have a high photo printing volume you'll be paying a lot of money for printer ink.

So What Kind of Ink Toner Cartridge Should You Get for Your Printer?

Should you go for the original make (OEM) or purchase an alternative ink toner cartridge for your printer?
Is it dangerous to use non-OEM ink toner cartridges? Will remanufactured ink toners or compatible ink toner cartridges ruin your printer?

What's actually the difference between Genuine (Original, OEM) BubbleJet / InkJet printer ink toner cartridges to Compatible Replacement ink toner cartridge?

Basically there are 4 solutions for your ink needs:

1. Remanufactured ink toner cartridges – Professionally remanufactured inkjet or other printer cartridges are actually original (Take for example, Lexmark X2550) inkjet cartridges which have been through one cycle of service and have been recharged. 

   When purchased from reputable source, Remanufactured ink cartridges go through a rigorous testing and quality assurance process and are run through an actual print test. After passing our provider's rigid standards, they have been remanufactured!  Good for the environment too!
      

2. Compatible ink toner cartridges – Produced by other companies to function as replacement alternative to OEM ink cartridges. Cheaper than OEM ink toner cartridges.
     
3. OEM ink toner cartridges – Genuine, original brand (new) ink cartridges for your printer or photo-printer.. The most expensive option, but depending upon the Remanufactured/ refill provider, it could be a much better ink toner quality free of ink-spill risks.
    

The remanufactured ink toner providers you'll find on this site are very reputable and provide quality guarantees at rock-bottom prices.

4.  Refill system for ink toner cartridges – This is the best way to save a lot of money. Some will sell you one time ink toner refill kits, some may not be good quality, or cause ink spills and damage to your printer and a lot of work to clean up.  So if considering an even more cost-effective ink toner solution, if OEM ink is not a holy cow for you and you want quality, go for this unlimited ink toner refill system =>  Free Ink for Life  – you could even refill printer cartridge ink toners for other people and charge them!

   On our dedicated ink toner shop pages you'll find refill ink toners from InkTec. Their refill kits are cartridge specific. So, depending upon your needs, you get the highest quality ink, instructions, and tools just for your printer. Each kit includes tools, instructions, and 2 refills per kit. They also give you a 100% satisfaction guarantee!
     

I hope this was helpful!
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